Hiberno-English

I have been studying construction management in the United States for the past five months now. I have learned how to speak and write English language in many different ways compared to back home in Cameroon. The life style and culture are very different from Cameroon. Coming to America has taught me many things along with the importance of being independent. I learned a lot about the America language, with a common language you can communicate well because you express your ideas. My cousins grew up here so it’s easy for them to communicate more efficiently. I remember once, there was a time when I needed some help in mathematics to solve a trapezium diagram, but when I asked her what was the formula she could not help me because I could not understand what she said.…

learning to speak. According the essay “Literacy: A Lineage”, by Melanie Luken, who was a French and English major at the Ohio State University “Studying a foreign language can, at times, be just like learning how to read and write as a child”(135). This statement made me wonder is it possible to be adults and children have the same capacity to learn a new language?…

One specific language spoken in Australia, called Guugu Yimithirr, is very heavily studied because it has no egocentric words, or words focused on themselves. They don’t use words like left or right, but instead north or south. This interested many scientists and brought about several studies. The most curious of which was done by showing one native English speaker and one native Guugu Yimithirr speaker a room facing south, and then showing them both a room across the hall that had the exact…

The year of 1944 led the nation of Canada into despair over the issue of the WW2. The current situation at that times steered people to believe that Conscription was the only solution to the problem. Conscription was the compulsory enrollment in armed forces which had once tore apart the nation of Canada back in 1917. The after math of was that the conscription crisis of 1944 in Canada, which was an unnecessary action that created bitter disputes between the French & English citizens, which…

one move another can tell what one is about to do. Basically stating that if a man walks behind you, and he’s tall, bulky, he will either rape you, mug you, or even do something worse. “They seemed to have set their faces on neutral, and with their purse straps strung across their chests bandolier-style, they forge ahead as though bracing themselves against being tackled” (Staples). Staples describes a body language that a women would so if someone is to follow her. A women would grab her purse…

Cool is a simple word that we use in our everyday lives as human beings. Despite it being such a simple word, it has wide-spread of meanings throughout the world. Some meanings are considered formal while some are consider slang. Some present a positive connotation while others present a negative connotation. Some uses of the word cool are used more often than others. The dictionary actually has a total of twenty-six definitions, all of them are correct, but the order of these definitions should…

governing led to the rebellion of the English people against him. This led to Charles II, Charles I’s son, to rule, in a way, relapsing his father’s rule. Oliver Cromwell’s main purpose of the disposal of the king Charles I was he was ruling England as a absolutist; although, that is what Oliver Cromwell himself ended up doing during his reign of power of the country of England. During the English Civil War Oliver Cromwell was a strong soldier, but a deficient ruler of the people. Oliver…

Learning English as a second language is very challenging, but not impossible. As it is the way in any type of language, mastering the English language requires frequent reading, talking, and writing. As a freshman student at Tennessee State University, I am taking the English 1010course, and I have been studying and preparing for thecourse very hard to achieve the highestgrade possible in the class. This commitment demandsplenty of time and hard work. It also requires a diligent…

Launched in Early 1996 in areas like Florida and Maine with respectively high Spanish and French speaking populations, the Dual Language Program has been immensely successful and productive in improving bilingual percentages in youth as well as significantly heightening test scores. Although highly criticized for being a “handout” for minority students, The Dual Language is actually 50-50 native english speaker to spanish speaker immersion program that starts in the early years of elementary…

Ida B. Wells and Other African Americans in the South African Americans have never had it easy. Almost every African American person was brought to America as a slave. Ruben Mitchell recalled what his master said, “You all’s free. We ain’t got nothing to do with you all no more. Go on away now, you all don’t belong to us no more.” When slaves were freed, many left their homes to search for better lives. Ida B. Wells’s parents did not do that. Ida B. Wells was one of America’s most…